Lucas Baird

The Nintendo Treehouse conference for E3 2017 has heralded the first gameplay look at Super Mario Odyssey. In an extended tour with game director Kenta Motokura and producer Yoshiaki Koizumi, a suite of the Odyssey's features were showcased, includin...

Ubisoft's E3 2017 press-conference has brought an announcement of Ubisoft Singapore's pirate project, Skull & Bones. The game's pre-rendered trailer showed a battle between several pirate ships, each helmed by a unique captain, and was followed ...

Bethesda has announced a new entry in the Dishonored franchise at E3 2017, slated for September 15th, 2017. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider sees the return of Daud and Billy, characters who took centre stage in the first Dishonored expansions, The ...

Following the announcement of Middle Earth: Shadow of War earlier in 2017, Microsoft debuted further footage of the game at E3.
The game's greater focus on expanding both the open world and the nemesis system were spoken to. The Ranger was shown i...

On the heels of the announcement of the Xbox One X, Microsoft announced the next Assassin's Creed title, confirming what leaks had suggested--that the franchise would be moving to Egypt for Assassin's Creed: Origins.
In what was described as the "...

It’s hard to imagine that there was a time in my life where I didn’t play card games at all. It wasn’t until about five years ago, with the “Return to Ravnica” block of Magic: The Gathering, that I began to devote large shares of my time to trading c...

In the media blitz of E3 2016, it's been easy to let stories and news slip through the cracks. The sheer number of games announced and showcased makes the industry a colourful tapestry, with E3 a floodgate of colours and sounds. But, somewhere amidst...

Let it Die starts you in your underwear. That's an important element of gameplay, and no E3 interview with developer Suda51 has passed without that critical factoid to start it off.
Goichi Suda, known by his nickname Suda51, is the sort of persona...

As I sink into the morass of adulthood, few things still bring me as true a joy as giant robots. Titanfall 2, the sequel to Respawn Entertainment's 2014 mech-shooter, promises at least double the giant robot quotient of its predecessor.
I felt ver...

Yo, do you remember the PC Gamer Bioshock demo disc from 2007? Lucas does, and it was all downhill from there.
Lucas Baird is an alumni of Vancouver Island University's Creative Writing program who often writes things about video games, whether he likes them or not. He cares too much about art in all its shapes and angles.